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To: arun gera who wrote (104956)	7/12/2003 3:36:39 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<Will soon outsource the fighting> At most, about 20,000 non-American troops will be go to Iraq. None, apparently, from Arabic-speaking nations. So, not much of the burden will be lifted from the shoulders of American infantry. Those other troops will come from where? Poland: a token number. I predict that, as soon as they start taking significant casualties, they are withdrawn. Pakistan: I predict that Pakistani soldiers in Iraq, will serve as a conduit for weapons, ammunition, and information, going to the Iraqi Islamists killing American soldiers. The sympathies of the Pakistani people lie with Bin Laden and Saddam, not Bush, as is clear from the Pew polls. 2 of 4 Pakistani provinces have elected Islamists into their governments. The army is recruited from those people. That army was the godfather of the Taliban, and only abandoned the Taliban under extreme duress. It is wishful thinking, to imagine Pakistani soldiers will not be on the side of the Islamists, in Iraq. India: Indian soldiers in Iraq will provoke Iraqi nationalism, even more than American soldiers do. This reminds me, of what happened in the American Revolutionary War. King George, in addition to being the British sovereign, was also a German nobleman, and therefore had access to German troops. When his British soldiers proved unable to put down the rebels, he recruited Germans. The practice of quartering troops in the homes of civilians, German troops who didn't speak English, this infuriated the colonists, and greatly increased enlistments in George Washington's army. Americans saw them as a foreign army of occupation. In the final battle of the war, fully 1/3 of the troops who laid down arms and surrendered to General Washington, were Germans. Iraqis are well aware of the track record of the Indian army, in Muslim-populated Kashmir. 600,000 Indian troops have been unable, after decades of effort, and an appalling human rights record, to pacify Kashmir. It is wishful thinking, to hope for anything different in Iraq.